World: all of the people, societies, and institutions on the earth.
As I’m discovering, the definition should go more like this:
World: all of the professional-looking straight men, developed countries, and shiny businesses on the earth.
People say it is naive to think that there is good in everyone. That you should be critical of every place you go or every person you meet or idea you come across. As soon as someone is unusual or unfamiliar that person gets a black mark against their name in our ever-growing, personal record of the world. As soon as we meet an idea too radical or controversial we are quick to say “that’s too hard; it’ll never work; give up now while you still have time.” Wrong until proven right. Guilty until proven innocent.
People say that the bible is a fake, but ignore the fact that it has been translated into the most languages and sold more copies than any other book in the world. They also say that Jesus and the things He did are fake too because the world wants tangible evidence. Proof that dances in front of our eyes – we have to see it to believe it. We are scientists, apparently, and somebody somewhere made the rule that science can never equal God, science only disproves God! Science makes sense and since God doesn’t make sense, we back away into doubt. Science also consists of testing hypotheses and we all know that hypotheses are never proven, they only leave room for more questioning. Yet since we cannot test God we struggle to grab hold of Him and label faith a cop out. It’s too hard. Stop, so we can focus on the easy things.
The easy things, like what is gender-appropriate. If you are a women, you are still the lesser sex. Women are underrepresented in the statistics regarding positions of power all over the world. It is better than it once was, but our world is still a sexist world. One astounding thing that I have realised, is that the only way this sexist society can change its ways is if an influential man, not woman, was at the face of the movement. Or better yet a group of men from positions of power. If it were women fronting the argument, society would say “oh no, not again… yet another complaining group of feminists.” But what would society say if it were men?
As I’m discovering, the definition should go more like this:
World: all of the professional-looking straight men, developed countries, and shiny businesses on the earth.
People say it is naive to think that there is good in everyone. That you should be critical of every place you go or every person you meet or idea you come across. As soon as someone is unusual or unfamiliar that person gets a black mark against their name in our ever-growing, personal record of the world. As soon as we meet an idea too radical or controversial we are quick to say “that’s too hard; it’ll never work; give up now while you still have time.” Wrong until proven right. Guilty until proven innocent.
People say that the bible is a fake, but ignore the fact that it has been translated into the most languages and sold more copies than any other book in the world. They also say that Jesus and the things He did are fake too because the world wants tangible evidence. Proof that dances in front of our eyes – we have to see it to believe it. We are scientists, apparently, and somebody somewhere made the rule that science can never equal God, science only disproves God! Science makes sense and since God doesn’t make sense, we back away into doubt. Science also consists of testing hypotheses and we all know that hypotheses are never proven, they only leave room for more questioning. Yet since we cannot test God we struggle to grab hold of Him and label faith a cop out. It’s too hard. Stop, so we can focus on the easy things.
The easy things, like what is gender-appropriate. If you are a women, you are still the lesser sex. Women are underrepresented in the statistics regarding positions of power all over the world. It is better than it once was, but our world is still a sexist world. One astounding thing that I have realised, is that the only way this sexist society can change its ways is if an influential man, not woman, was at the face of the movement. Or better yet a group of men from positions of power. If it were women fronting the argument, society would say “oh no, not again… yet another complaining group of feminists.” But what would society say if it were men?
